Botanical Words Alphabetical List - FO

FOLIACEOUS: Being or resembling a leaf. In botany, having the texture or form of a leaf, as a foliaceous sepal or bract.

FOLIAGE: The mass of growing plant leaves in their natural form and condition, or a cluster of the same; leafage.

FOLIAGE PLANT: A plant grown for its attractive foliage rather than for its flowers, as the various kinds of Coleus and Philodendron.

FOLIAR: Consisting of or pertaining to leaves.

FOLIAR FEEDING: Feeding plants by spraying plant food on their leaves.

FOLIATE: Leafy; covered with leaves or leaflets (i.e. foliate stalk).

FOLIATION: The leafing of plants; the disposition of the beginning leaves within the bud.

FOLIICOLOUS: Growing upon leaves; parasitic on leaves, as many fungi.

FOLIOLATE: Pertaining to, consisting of, or having leaflets. Used in combination, as bifoliolate, having two leaflets.

FOLIOLE: A leaflet; a small part resembling a leaf.

FOLIOSE: Leafy or resembling a leaf. Also folious.

FOLLICLE: A dry, one-celled seed vessel consisting of a single carpel and dehiscent only by the ventral suture, as in the milkweed and larkspur.

FOOTSTALK: The stalk, or petiole, of a leaf or the peduncle of a flower.

FORCING: The practice of bringing a plant into growth or flower (usually by artificial heat or controlling daylight) at a season earlier than its natural one.

FORCING HOUSE: A hothouse used for forcing plants.

FORCING PIT: A pit of wood or masonry, sunk in the earth, for containing fermenting materials to produce bottom heat in forcing plants.

FORM: A botanical category ranking below a variety and differing only trivially from other related forms, such as in flower color.

FORNICATE: Overarched fornices, as the throat of the corolla of the forget-me-not. Also forniciform.

FORNIX: (Plural: fornices) A small, arching scale or appendage in the throat of the corolla of some plants, such as in forget-me-nots.

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